A pox on both their houses
How hard is it to just listen to music these days?
#Twenty One
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If anything, make it weirder
Today I listened to ‘Cloudbusting’ by Kate Bush for the first time in a while. What a gloriously strange song it is. Best of …
Jab 2
I was due to have my second vaccination today, but like most people I rebooked to have it a bit earlier. No real side effects this time, …
Rachel Cusk, Outline
Outline is the first of a trilogy of novels by Rachel Cusk. In it, the narrator is travelling to Athens to help teach on a creative writing …
Understated Classics #38: Trance Nation (Various Artists)
I don’t know about you, but lately I’ve been in need of some music that:
Jab 1
I had my first Covid-19 vaccination on Friday. Leading up to it, I was borderline having a panic attack. From about lunchtime I was just all …
Drawing a line on the page
Ingrid has joined an online drawing class. She sits there on Teams getting feedback on her drawings, while I sit there attempting to absorb …
I was twenty one at the time…
“I was twenty-one at the time, about to turn twenty-two. No prospect of graduating soon, and yet no reason to quit school. Caught in …
Some Tips For Saving Time
A non-exhaustive list of ideas for saving time:
The Forever Now
Writing this post came about from frustration with blogging. Specifically the tools I am using. Often it feels like a new language or …
Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone, This Is How You Lose the Time War
This Is How You Lose the Time War is a short novella about two members of opposing factions (Red and Blue) engaged in a ’time war’: …
Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
Last year I started to write a review of Italo Calvino’s “If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller”. I read it while we …